The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Living in a city, I wasn’t allowed to cross roads by myself when I was seven (some thirty years ago) much less four lane ones. The horrible American infrastructure make it even worse for the parents to let their kids go alone. Was the mother not aware of that road being there?

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        2 days ago

        He’s cooperating with the cops apparently, but it sounds like it was a bystander who was checking on the other kid until their parents could get there.